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    1. Tunable 1060nm VCSEL co-packaged with pump and SOA for OCT and LiDAR

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      Tunable 1060nm VCSEL co-packaged with pump and SOA for OCT and LiDAR

      A 1060 nm optically pumped tunable VCSEL was formed from an InGaAs/AlGaAs/GaAs half-VCSEL bonded to a MEMS movable mirror on a silicon substrate. The VCSEL was co-packaged in a 14-pin butterfly module with an 825 nm pump laser and a 1060 nm semiconductor optical amplifier. The co-packaged device exhibited shot-noise-limited sensitivity with up to 50 mW output power and 75 nm tunability. Ophthalmic OCT, especially whole-eye imaging and ocular biometry, is considered the primary application of this device. However, we have also investigated LiDAR to greater than 10 meter ranges with non-mechanical beam steering through angular diffraction from ...

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    2. Soliton microcomb based spectral domain optical coherence tomography

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      Soliton microcomb based spectral domain optical coherence tomography

      Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) has become a widely applied minimally invasive technique for bio-medical imaging[1–4], and industrial process control[5]. One of the most commonly used light source for SD-OCT is based on superluminescent diodes (SLD), which provide a low-noise broadband coverage.[6] Recent advances have allowed creating photonic integrated chipscale frequency combs, that provide an attractive alternative illumination scheme for SD-OCT. Yet to date, the use of such soliton micro-combs in OCT has not been demonstrated or considered. Here we explore the use of soliton microcombs in spectral domain OCT. By using photonic chipscale Si3N4 ...

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      Mentions: Carl Zeiss Meditec Polytechnique Montreal Theo Lasser

    3. BiOS Hot Topics: Changing of the Guard

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      BiOS Hot Topics: Changing of the Guard

      The near-capacity crowd at their ultimate session this week broke into applause as Rox Anderson opened with "This is the largest meeting in the world for biomedical optics, and that's because of you!" He added that the reason BiOS has grown so popular is the diversity of the intellect and specialties that are featured in the symposium, such as those involved in medicine, bioscience, and physics. James Fujimoto introduced the new BiOS co-chairs, Jennifer Barton of the University of Arizona and Wolfgang Drexler of the University of Vienna. Touching on the impressive backgrounds of each, Fujimoto noted, "we know ...

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      Mentions: James G. Fujimoto Wolfgang Drexler Leiden University

    4. Computationally effective 2D and 3D fast phase unwrapping algorithms and their applications to Doppler optical coherence tomography

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      Computationally effective 2D and 3D fast phase unwrapping algorithms and their applications to Doppler optical coherence tomography

      We propose a simplification for a robust and easy to implement fast phase unwrapping (FPU) algorithm that is used to solve the phase wrapping problem encountered in various fields of optical imaging and metrology. We show that the number of necessary computations using the algorithm can be reduced compared to its original version. FPU can be easily extended from two to three spatial dimensions. We demonstrate the applicability of the two- and three-dimensional FPU algorithm for Doppler optical coherence tomography (DOCT) in numerical simulations, and in the imaging of a flow phantom and blood flow in the human retina in ...

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      Mentions: Nicolaus Copernicus University Maciej Szkulmowski Iwona Gorczynska

    5. Quantitative nontumorous and tumorous human brain tissue assessment using microstructural co- and cross-polarized optical coherence tomography

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      Quantitative nontumorous and tumorous human brain tissue assessment using microstructural co- and cross-polarized optical coherence tomography

      Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a promising method for detecting cancer margins during tumor resection. This study focused on differentiating tumorous from nontumorous tissues in human brain tissues using cross-polarization OCT (CP OCT). The study was performed on fresh ex vivo human brain tissues from 30 patients with high- and low-grade gliomas. Different tissue types that neurosurgeons should clearly distinguish during surgery, such as the cortex, white matter, necrosis and tumorous tissue, were separately analyzed. Based on volumetric CP OCT data, tumorous and normal brain tissue were differentiated using two optical coefficients — attenuation and forward cross-scattering. Compared with white matter ...

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      Mentions: Institute of Applied Physics Grigory V. Gelikonov Elena V. Zagaynova

    6. Optical coherence tomography-guided laser marking with tethered capsule endomicroscopy in unsedated patients

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      Optical coherence tomography-guided laser marking with tethered capsule endomicroscopy in unsedated patients

      Tethered capsule endomicroscopy (TCE) is an emerging screening technology that comprehensively obtains microstructural OCT images of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract in unsedated patients. To advance clinical adoption of this imaging technique, it will be important to validate TCE images with co-localized histology, the current diagnostic gold standard. One method for co-localizing OCT images with histology is image-targeted laser marking, which has previously been implemented using a driveshaft-based, balloon OCT catheter, deployed during endoscopy. In this paper, we present a TCE device that scans and targets the imaging beam using a low-cost stepper motor that is integrated inside the capsule. In ...

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      Mentions: Guillermo J. Tearney Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University

    7. System Engineer Opening at Heidelberg Engineering in Lübeck Germany

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      System Engineer Opening at Heidelberg Engineering in Lübeck Germany

      We are looking for In order to support our development department in Lübeck, we are looking for a professionally and personally convincing personality. We offer you an exciting and responsible position in a fast-growing company. Our Lübeck site specialises in OCT technology and systems integration. With your high understanding of systems, you will accompany a project from the initial conception, through the definition of the architecture, the construction of prototypes to testing and handover to production. Your responsibilities System development from the basic concept to production Evaluation of new technological possibilities Definition and elaboration of the system architecture ...

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    8. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Optical Coherence Tomography at The Tearney Lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA USA

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      Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Optical Coherence Tomography at The Tearney Lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA USA

      A Postdoctoral research fellowship in the area of optical coherence tomography (OCT) is available in the Tearney Lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the Wellman Center for Photomedicine. This appointment will be made at the rank of postdoctoral fellow or instructor at Harvard Medical School, commensurate with the applicant’s experience. MGH’s role as a leading teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and close ties to Harvard University and MIT provide an outstanding environment for developing and translating new OCT technologies with applications in basic and clinical research. The fellowship will focus on high resolution OCT imaging ...

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      Mentions: Guillermo J. Tearney Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University

    9. Synthetic subaperture-based angle-independent Doppler flow measurements using single-beam line field optical coherence tomography in vivo

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      Synthetic subaperture-based angle-independent Doppler flow measurements using single-beam line field optical coherence tomography in vivo

      We demonstrate a synthetic subaperture-based angle-independent Doppler flow calculation, using a line field spectral domain optical coherence tomography system. The high speed of the system features a high phase stability over the volume, which is necessary to apply synthetic subapertures in the aperture plane. Thus, the flow component for each subaperture can be reconstructed in postprocessing. Capillary phantom and in vivo retinal imaging experiments were performed to validate and demonstrate angle-independent Doppler flow calculation

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      Mentions: Rainer A. Leitgeb Medical University of Vienna Lara M. Wurster

    10. SPECTRALIS OCT2 Module Improves Speed and Efficiency on the International Space Station

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      SPECTRALIS OCT2 Module Improves Speed and Efficiency on the International Space Station

      Research on the effects of microgravity on vision continues with the SPECTRALIS multi-modal imaging platform. Heidelberg Engineering, a privately-held imaging and healthcare IT technologies company focused on ophthalmic diagnostic solutions that empower clinicians to improve patient care, announced that its SPECTRALIS imaging platform with the company’s next-generation OCT2 Module has been successfully installed at the International Space Station (ISS) and is now fully operational. NASA launched the SPECTRALIS with OCT2 Module to the ISS aboard the Antares 230 Cygnus CRS OA-9, also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 9E, from Wallops Island, Virginia, last May. The new imaging platform ...

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      Mentions: Heidelberg Engineering Heidelberg Spectralis

    11. Toward a multimodal fusion of layered cultural object images: complementarity of optical coherence tomography and terahertz time-domain imaging in the heritage field

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      Toward a multimodal fusion of layered cultural object images: complementarity of optical coherence tomography and terahertz time-domain imaging in the heritage field

      Terahertz time-domain imaging (THz-TDI) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) are two techniques capable of providing 3D datasets from which depth profiles and cross-sectional images of an object can be derived. They are novel photonics technologies of particular relevance to the field of heritage science, for which the comprehension of the stratigraphic structure of a cultural heritage object may help in the understanding of its artistic technology and state of preservation. The differences in imaging depth, field of view, and axial/lateral resolutions of the two imaging techniques provide different but complementary information of the same scene. Through the use ...

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    1. Temperature stabilized phase reference for MEMS based swept sources

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      Temperature stabilized phase reference for MEMS based swept sources

      MEMS tunable lasers are not inherently phase stable because Brownian motion and drive electronics noise make the starting wavelength of the sweep unstable with respect to the electrical sweep trigger. A typical solution to the problem is to use a fiber Bragg reflector wavelength trigger. That is a sub-optimal solution since environmental changes can move both the Bragg peak and the k-clock phase. We have packaged temperature controlled trigger and clock etalons in a butterfly package to solve this environmental problem. By making the wide FSR trigger etalon from silicon and the narrow FSR clock etalon from fused silica, the ...

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    2. Distributed gas detection utilizing Fourier domain optical coherence based absorption spectroscopy

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      Distributed gas detection utilizing Fourier domain optical coherence based absorption spectroscopy

      In this study, a new method called Fourier domain optical coherence based absorption spectroscopy (FD-OCAS) is proposed for distributed gas detection for the first time. Mach-Zehnder interferometer based quasi-distributed structure is developed for proof-concept demonstration and experimental verification. Optical interference happens between reference arm and sensing arms of the constructed Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Different sensing arms coded with different fiber lengths contribute different frequency components in ultimate interference signals. Fourier transform is used to separate each frequency to identify different sensing arms, realizing distributed detection. The amplitudes of Fourier transform are related to the gas absorption levels in corresponding sensing arms ...

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    3. Optical coherence tomography analysis of filtering blebs after long-term, functioning trabeculectomy and XEN® stent implant

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      Optical coherence tomography analysis of filtering blebs after long-term, functioning trabeculectomy and XEN® stent implant

      Purpose The purpose of this study was to use Triton® SweptSource OCT to evaluate the morphology of blebs formed when eyes are treated with XEN® implants and to compare these with the blebs in successfully functioning eyes after trabeculectomy (TB) and with eyes of healthy controls. Methods A cross-sectional, observational study. We analyzed 25 eyes, 15 after TB and 10 with XEN® implants, comparing them with 23 healthy eyes (controls). We evaluated the conjunctival morphology of the eyes using AS-OCT. The main parameters evaluated were bleb height, sub-epithelial fibrosis, epithelial thickness, and changes in intraocular pressure (IOP). Results We found ...

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    4. Utility of optical coherence tomography angiography in detecting vascular retinal damage caused by arterial hypertension

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      Utility of optical coherence tomography angiography in detecting vascular retinal damage caused by arterial hypertension

      Objective: To evaluate the potential utility of perfusion density measurements to discriminate patients with arterial hypertension by cardiovascular risk category. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, one eye per subject was evaluated (N = 73). The study cohort was divided into three groups according to the clinical criteria established by the European Guidelines for Arterial Hypertension: 26 controls, 24 patients with low cardiovascular risk, and 23 patients with very high cardiovascular risk. All patients were examined using RS-3000 Advance optical coherence tomography angiography to analyze macular and peripapillary perfusion density. Results: There were no differences among the three risk groups by sex ...

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    5. Assessment of strut coverage of everolimus-eluting platinum chromium stent 2 weeks after implantation by optical coherence tomography

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      Assessment of strut coverage of everolimus-eluting platinum chromium stent 2 weeks after implantation by optical coherence tomography

      The SYNERGY coronary stent is new-generation drug-eluting stents, which has a thin-strut platinum–chromium platform with everolimus in a biodegradable polymer applied to the abluminal surface. It would be speculated that favorable arterial healing with early strut coverage could be achieved. The present study investigated the degree of strut coverage using optical coherence tomography (OCT) 2 weeks after SYNERGY implantation and clinical factors contributing to strut coverage. A total of 29 patients who underwent staged percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to residual lesions 2 weeks after the index PCI with SYNERGY stent implantation were enrolled. At the time of staged PCI ...

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    6. Glaucoma Diagnosis with Machine Learning Based on Optical Coherence Tomography and Color Fundus Image

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      Glaucoma Diagnosis with Machine Learning Based on Optical Coherence Tomography and Color Fundus Image

      This study aimed to develop a machine learning-based algorithm for glaucoma diagnosis in patients with open-angle glaucoma, based on three-dimensional optical coherence tomography (OCT) data and color fundus images. In this study, 208 glaucomatous and 149 healthy eyes were enrolled, and color fundus images and volumetric OCT data from the optic disc and macular area of these eyes were captured with a spectral-domain OCT (3D OCT-2000, Topcon). Thickness and deviation maps were created with a segmentation algorithm. Transfer learning of convolutional neural network (CNN) was used with the following types of input images: (1) fundus image of optic disc in ...

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      Mentions: Topcon Medical Systems Masahiro Akiba Tohoku University

    7. Prediction of corneal curvature radius after pterygium surgery using anterior segment optical coherence tomography

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      Prediction of corneal curvature radius after pterygium surgery using anterior segment optical coherence tomography

      Purpose To investigate the validity of a multiple regression equation to predict postoperative corneal curvature radius (K) in simultaneous cataract and pterygium surgery using preoperative factors, including preoperative K. Study design Retrospective study. Methods Seventy eyes of 58 patients who had undergone initial pterygium removal at the Hayashi Eye Hospital between June 2014 and December 2017 were included in this study. In all eyes, the shape of the cornea could be measured using anterior segment optical coherence tomography 2 months after surgery. The independent variables were determined using a multiple regression equation that predicted the average postoperative K on the ...

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    8. Qualitative and quantitative neointimal characterization by optical coherence tomography in patients presenting with in-stent restenosis

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      Qualitative and quantitative neointimal characterization by optical coherence tomography in patients presenting with in-stent restenosis

      Aims To describe optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings in patients with in-stent restenosis (ISR) and determine predictors of neointimal patterns and neoatherosclerosis. Methods and results Patients undergoing OCT prior to PCI for ISR in three European centres were included. Analyses were performed in a core laboratory. Qualitative and quantitative [gray-scale signal intensity (GSI)] neointima analyses were performed on a per quadrant basis. A total of 107 patients were included. Predominantly homogeneous lesions included 4.5% (0.0–14.3) non-homogeneous quadrants, while predominantly non-homogeneous ones included 28.1% (20.3–37.5) homogeneous quadrants. Mean GSI values differed significantly between ...

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      Mentions: San Carlos University Hospital Fernando Alfonso Nieves Gonzalo

    9. Choroidal neovascularization imaging using multiple en face optical coherence tomography angiography image averaging

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      Choroidal neovascularization imaging using multiple en face optical coherence tomography angiography image averaging

      Purpose To determine the effects of averaging five en face optical coherence tomography angiographic (OCTA) images on the quality of the images in eyes with a choroidal neovascularization (CNV). Methods Twenty-seven eyes of 25 patients (18 men, 7 women; average age 71.0 years) with a CNV were examined by OCTA (OCT HS-100, Canon. Japan). A 3 × 3-mm image including the CNV was recorded and automatically segmented between the retinal outer layers. Analyses were performed on a single image (S-image) and the average of five single images of the same area (A-images). The region of the CNV was selected by ...

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    10. Quantitative assessment of outer retinal folds on enface optical coherence tomography after vitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment

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      Quantitative assessment of outer retinal folds on enface optical coherence tomography after vitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment

      We aimed to investigate the possible causes of metamorphopsia for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) based on findings of enface optical coherence tomography (OCT). The study was a retrospective, consecutive case series of 33 eyes with macula-off RRD. Metamorphopsia was measured by M-CHARTS and enface OCT images covering a macular area of 6 × 6 mm square obtained at 1, 3, and 6 months postoperatively. Within the outer retinal slabs of enface OCT, multiple lines that looked like folds were delineated in all eyes at month 1, and we succeeded in extracting images of folds by subtracting retinal vessels. We calculated their ...

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      Mentions: Hiroshi Ishikawa

    11. Optical coherence tomography imaging in keratoconus

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      Optical coherence tomography imaging in keratoconus

      Invited Review: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is being increasingly used as a tool in the diagnosis and management of keratoconus. While elevation‐based topography remains essential, there is an expanding role for cross‐sectional OCT imaging in the diagnosis of the disease. Images and measurements of corneal thickness, and in particular, epithelial thickness, may be important in diagnosing early cases, and following procedures such as intrastromal corneal ring segments, corneal transplants and corneal collagen cross‐linking.

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    14. Remineralizing Potential of Nano-Silver-Fluoride for Tooth Enamel: An Optical Coherence Tomography Analysis

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      Remineralizing Potential of Nano-Silver-Fluoride for Tooth Enamel: An Optical Coherence Tomography Analysis

      Objective: To evaluate the use of nanosilver fluoride in the enamel remineralization process through optical coherence tomography . Material and Methods: All samples were submitted to demineralization process by pH cycling during 14 days and randomly distributed into three groups (n = 11): Nanosilver Fluoride (NSF), Sodium fluoride (NaF), and negative control. Optical coherence tomography images were acquired at three different moments: initial stage (T0), post caries formation (T1), and post pH cycling (T2). The integrity of the enamel surface and the measurement of the volume loss for the tissue after pH cycling in comparison to initial images were obtained from optical ...

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